US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Design of Smart Sensor and Its Implementation In Wireless Sensors Network

该项目支持路易斯安那大学高级计算机研究中心Magdy Bayoumi博士的合作研究。埃及合作者是埃及开罗电子研究所的阿迈勒·扎基博士。他们计划研究智能传感器的设计及其在无线传感器网络中的实现。涉及传感器和执行器的微系统技术的快速发展令人惊叹。传感器技术使当前和潜在的各种应用成为可能，包括无线通信、生物医学应用、微型机器人、遥感和环境应用的分布式传感器网络。下一代智能传感器需要完全集成、低成本、可靠，并使用微系统和纳米系统技术与IC完全集成。微系统技术、CMOS和射频前端技术的最新进展可以用来开发这些智能传感器，并将它们与计算元件、发电和超低功耗无线通信设备相结合，以开发适用于各种应用的自主无线传感器平台。MEMS/NEMS(Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems/Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems)技术有望提供许多传感器应用，这些应用是小型化、便携式、低质量、低体积和低功耗的系统，而不会有显著的性能损失。PI首先将重点放在使用MEMS技术的智能传感器的设计上。然后，他们将通过可在多种应用中实现的附加信号处理电路来研究这种传感器在无线网络中的实现。智能优点：提出的在无线传感器网络中实现和集成智能传感器将使两国的许多应用程序受益。将传感器和信号处理电路集成在同一芯片上将产生小型灵敏智能传感器。这些设备将用于实现化学或生物传感功能。这项工作是新颖的，需要广泛的设计和模拟才能生产出高度选择性的智能传感器。埃及团队将负责设计和模拟部分传感器和接口电路。美国团队将帮助制造和处理传感器设备，并设计信号处理电路。更广泛的影响：计划在两个小组之间进行交流信息的访问。合作将包括转让创新技术，其中涉及智能传感器的设计、建模和制造。传感器将在美国的实验室中实施和表征。这将有助于美国和埃及的团队在其研究所建立微系统的新技术。正在开发的几个先进的传感器/仪器概念可能会对人身安全和国土安全有利。私营部门将被邀请发展他们的能力，为不同的传感器建立和实施新的设计，并在已经建立的测试环境中测试他们开发的设备。美国PI将与现有的大学项目合作，旨在增加完成科学、工程和数学学位的人数不足的学生的数量。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金计划的支持，该计划为两国的科学家和工程师提供资助，以开展这些合作活动。

0707235BayoumiDescription: This project supports collaborative research by Dr. Magdy Bayoumi, Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana. The Egyptian collaborator is Dr. Amal Zaki at the Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. They plan to study the design of smart sensors and their implementation in wireless sensors network. The rapid growth of Microsystems technology which involves sensors and actuators has been phenomenal. Sensor technology has enabled a wide variety of current and potential applications including wireless communications, biomedical applications, micro-robotics, remote sensing and distributed sensor networks for environmental applications. The next-generation of smart sensors need to be fully-integrated, low cost, reliable, and fully costumed with IC using microsystem and nanosystem technologies. Recent advances in Microsystems technology, CMOS, and RF front-end can be used to develop these smart sensors and combine them with computing elements, power generation and ultra low power wireless communication equipment in order to develop autonomous wireless sensor platform suitable for various applications.MEMS/NEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems / Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology promises to deliver many sensors applications, which are miniaturized, portable systems with low mass, size and power consumption, without significant loss of capability. The PIs will first focus on the design of the smart sensor using MEMS technology. Then they will investigate the implementation of this sensor in a wireless network by additional signal processing circuitry that can be implemented in numerous applications. Intellectual Merit: The proposed implementation and integrated smart sensors in wireless sensors network will benefit many applications in both countries. The integration of the sensors and the signal processing circuitry on the same chip will result in small sensitive smart sensors. The devices will be used to implement chemical or biological sensing features. The work is novel and will require extensive design and simulation to produce highly selective smart sensors. The Egyptian team will be responsible for design and simulation of parts of the sensors and interface circuits. The US team will help in the fabrication and processing of the sensor device and the design of the signal processing circuitry. Broader Impacts: Planned visits between the two teams to interchange the information are scheduled. The collaboration will include transfer of the innovative technologies, which involve design, modeling, and fabrication of smart sensors. The sensors will be implemented and characterized in the US laboratories. This will help both of U.S. and Egypt teams in establishing the new technology of microsystem in their institutes. Several of the advanced sensor/instrument concepts being developed could potentially benefit personal safety and homeland Security. Private sector will be invited to develop their ability to build and implement new designs for different sensors and to test their developed devices in an already established test environment. The US PI will work with the existing University programs aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented students completing degrees in science, engineering, and mathematics. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.